Motivational Quotes

Character

The real character of a man is found out by his amusements.

- Reynolds, Sir Joshua

Best Quotes about Character

It is well for the world that in most of us, by the age of thirty, the character has set like plaster, and will never soften again.

James, William

Watch your thoughts; they become words. Watch your words; they become actions. Watch your actions; they become habits. Watch your habits; they become character. Watch your character; it becomes your destiny.

A good character is the best tombstone. Those who loved you, and were helped by you, will remember you when forget-me-nots are withered. Carve your name on hearts, and not on marble

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

During my eighty-seven years, I have witnessed a whole succession of technological revolutions. But none of them has done away with the need for character in the individual or the ability to think.

Baruch, Bernard M.

I appreciate people who are civil, whether they mean it or not. I think: Be civil. Do not cherish your opinion over my feelings. There's a vanity to candor that isn't really worth it. Be kind.

Richard Greenberg

Too often the strong, silent man is silent only because he does not know what to say, and is reputed strong only because he has remained silent.

Churchill, Winston

The character of a man is known from his conversations.

Menander

Talents are best nurtured in solitude. Character is best formed in the stormy billows of the world.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

If you create an act, you create a habit. If you create a habit, you create a character. If you create a character, you create a destiny.

Maurois, Andre

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Instill the love of you into all the world, for a good character is what is remembered.

Merikare

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While an original is always hard to find, he is easy to recognize.

Mason, John L.

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There's a fine line between character building and soul destroying.

Hay, Colin

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Character is simply habit long continued.

Plutarch

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A man never discloses his own character so clearly as when he describes another s.

Richter, Jean Paul

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Though intelligence is powerless to modify character, it is a dab hand at finding euphemisms for its weaknesses.

Crisp, Quentin

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Character development is the aim of education.

O'Shea

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Character is to man what carbon is to steel.

Hill, Napoleon

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Everyone has three characters, that which they exhibit, that which they have, and that which they think they have.

Karr, Alphonse

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If all I'm remembered for is being a good basketball player, then I've done a bad job with the rest of my life.

Thomas, Isiah

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Weakness of character is the only defect which cannot be amended.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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If a man character is to be abused there's nobody like a relative to do the business.

Thackeray, William M.

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Underneath this flabby exterior is an enormous lack of character.

Oscar Levant

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Clear conscience never fears midnight knocking.

Proverb, Chinese

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Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experiences of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, vision cleared, ambition inspired and success achieved.

Keller, Helen

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Character is like the foundation of a house -- it is below the surface.

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The empty vessel makes the loudest sound.

Shakespeare, William

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Character contributes to beauty. It fortifies a woman as her youth fades.

Bisset, Jacqueline

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Character matters; leadership descends from character.

Limbaugh, Rush

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Old age and sickness bring out the essential characteristics of a man.

Frankfurter, Felix

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Testimony is like an arrow shot from a long bow and the force of it depends on the strength of the arm from which it was shot. Argument is like a bullet fired from a gun and has equal force even when issued from a child.

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Character consists of what you do on the third and fourth tries.

Michener, James A.

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You must regulate your life by the standards you admire when you are at your best.

Thomas, John M.

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Gross and obscure natures, however decorated, seem impure shambles; but character gives splendor to youth, and awe to wrinkled skin and gray hairs.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Faced with crisis, the man of character falls back on himself. He imposes his own stamp of action, takes responsibility for it, makes it his own.

Gaulle, Charles De

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It is part of the American character to consider nothing as desperate -- to surmount every difficulty by resolution and contrivance.

Jefferson, Thomas

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What you possess in the world will be found at the day of your death to belong to someone else. But what you are will be yours forever.

Dyke, Henry Van

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Men show their character in nothing more clearly than what they think laughable.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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In attempts to improve your character, know what is in your power and what is beyond it.

Francis Thompson

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Without an acquaintance with the rules of propriety, it is impossible for the character to be established.

Confucius

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Character is what you know you are, not what others think you have.

Collins, Marva

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Fame is a vapor, popularity an accident, and riches take wings. Only one thing endures and that is character.

Greeley, Horace

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As fire when thrown into water is cooled down and put out, so also a false accusation when brought against a man of the purest and holiest character, boils over and is at once dissipated, and vanishes and threats of heaven and sea, himself standing unmoved.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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The lord will not hold back the promises, even if the person who makes them is not worthy.

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Character is made by many acts; it may be lost by a single one.

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You can tell the character of every man when you see how he receives praise.

Seneca

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Character is our destiny.

Heraclitus

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I could never think well of a man's intellectual or moral character, if he was habitually unfaithful to his appointments.

Nathaniel Emmons

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A man with a so-called character is often a simple piece of mechanism; he has often only one point of view for the extremely complicated relationships of life.

Strindberg, J. August

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Characters do not change. Opinions alter, but characters are only developed.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Character develops itself in the stream of life.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von